. " churchill has responded to requests for verification of his claimed indian heritage in various ways , including attacking the blood quantum upon which some native american tribes establish their membership requirements . churchill argues that the united states instituted blood quantum laws based upon rules of descend ##ancy in order to further goals of personal enrichment and political ex ##ped ##ien ##cy . for decades in his writings , churchill has argued that blood quantum laws have an inherent gen ##oc ##idal purpose . he says , " set the blood quantum at one @ - @ quarter , hold to it as a rigid definition of indians , let inter ##mar ##ria ##ge proceed as it [ has ] and eventually indians will be defined
. " churchill has responded to requests for verification of his claimed indian heritage in various ways, including attacking the blood quantum upon which some native american tribes establish their membership requirements. churchill argues that the united states instituted blood quantum laws based upon rules of descendancy in order to further goals of personal enrichment and political expediency. for decades in his writings, churchill has argued that blood quantum laws have an inherent genocidal purpose. he says, " set the blood quantum at one @ - @ quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of indians, let intermarriage proceed as it [ has ] and eventually indians will be defined